"The flood!? On a forerunner planet? Weren't all flood reminents wiped out when the master chief destroyed the third halo?" Gypsee says. "Apparently not" replied the captain. The ships A.I. then appeared on a console next to the captain, the crew called it Blitz, due to the fact that it always wanted to complete the task at hand quickly and thoroughly. "Captain" it said "All Spartan squads are ready for deployment except for Serpent squad, due to their pelican being damaged. It could take some time." "Time isn't a luxury that we have right now" the captain said. "Sir. What if I got to work on the pelican, it would save time and get the Spartans into the fight faster" "How long do you estimate the repairs will take Gypsee?" "About an hour or so sir, depending on how up to date the equipment is" Gypsee said, joking about equipment. "Just get it done" "Yes sir" Gypsee then leaves the Bridge and heads towards the hanger, or what was left of it.

Once she entered the hanger she could see the damage that had been done to it. A landing pad had been obliterated and there were injured personnel being carried off in stretchers, and some being trapped underneath destroyed debris. Gypsee then saw the pelican that she had the work on, one if it's wings was nearly broken off and an engine was smoking. "Looks easy enough" Gypsee said. She began to maneuver her way through the chaos that took place and made it to the ship. Once she got a good look at the wing she began to take some tools out that would confuse anyone who didn't know what they were for.

Just as Gypsee predicted, the repairs took about an hour. As she was leaving she saw the leader of Serpent Squad loading his troops into the now fixed pelican. "Alright, Polonsky get your sniper and get in the pelican" "Yes sir". As soon as the fourth, and last, Spartan was loaded he looked towards Gypsee and yell "Thanks for the repair job" before walking into the pelican as the pad began to move downwards, ready to depart. "You welcome" Gypsee yelled back as it sank into the ship. Gypsee then proceeded to leave the hanger to move to the engineering bay to see what she could do there. As soon as she got there and saw the similar chaos that she had seen in the hanger she thought to herself, "This is gonna be a long day".

As the pelican started to leave through the open hatch of the ship he Spartan SV21 looked at his men through his visor. On his right was his second in command, Jack, one of his best friends from the academy. They had gone through hell and back together and Jack always seemed to find hope in a dire situation. To the left was Josh, the demolitions expert, he once bragged that he could defuse a covenant bomb in under 10 seconds and under pressure. Of course, none of the other team members wanted a demonstration. Cleaning his rifle, was Polonsky, he was the replacement for the previous sniper that was killed by the end of a gravity hammer. The last person, in the cockpit, was Jenny, although most of the crew saw her as one of the best pilots she was actually SV21's long lost cousin, who had been presumed dead, from a planet that had been glassed by a covenant fleet. After going through extreme hardships, she was finally able to be placed in the spartan program. After serving with her squad, for a 5 month period with some fighting experience under her belt, she was finally promoted to lieutenant and put into a new unit. Not her cousin's, but still, she could follow his career and see him once in a while.

Back on the pelican, Gypsee made her way to the cockpit and watched the pilot dodging masses of spore clouds.

"Ma'am" The pilot said.

"What is it?"

"I'm gonna need a clear LZ to set us down. Otherwise it's too hot to set up a base and establish a forward position"

"Understood. I'll go tell SV21. Good job," she said as she left the cockpit and started towards the aft section of the ship.

She made her way quickly to the back of the ship and started towards SV21. Once she got to him she began to brief him about the situation.

"Apparently we need to clear out a couple of hostiles before we can bring in the combat controllers."

She said. "OK, everyone get set for battle" He said, it had been a pretty boring ride and he was ready for a little action. After everyone was ready the pilot opened the back of the ship, letting them jump off the ship onto the flood infested planet.

Once they were foot wet, almost literally, they began the make a small perimeter around the area. After scouting the area, and not seeing anything at the moment they decided to order in a fire base from the ship. While it was coming down and being constructed, two more pelicans dropped in three squads of marines, equipped with flame based weaponry. They were armed with flamethrowers and had incendiary ammo for their ammunition instead of standard rounds.

"OK, as soon as the base is finished I want warthogs out here so we can get a better range of the area" SV21 said.

"Sir, yes,sir!" the marines replied before hurrying off to set up defenses around the base. Meanwhile Josh and Polonsky were chatting together about what kinds of enemies they would be up against.

"So," Polonsky said. "What do you think is out there anyway?"

"I don't know and I don't want to know, but we're probably gonna find out whether we want to or not."

Jack then walked by then with his machine gun in his hand, "Can't wait to try out this gun, one hell of a turkey shooter."

"Yeah you would say that wouldn't you." The SV21 had walked up behind them and gave Jack a friendly punch on the shoulder.

Once the firebase was made it started to produce as many warthogs as needed for a full recon sweep.

"OK everyone," The SV21 addressed the marines and his squad from the top of a warthog. "I need my squad the get into a warthog to find a proper area for a forward command center. Once we find one we'll call in pelicans to transport marines to the site. That's all for now. Good luck and dismissed." Then he jumped into the driver's seat of the warthog and began to drive off with his squad following behind.

As they drove away he thought to himself, This is going to be interesting.

A.N. Lets see if anyone can tell where I got Polonsky from. Also I have read the two reviews and I am aware of the other forerunner planets besides Requiem. Besides this is a fanfic, it doesn't have to be accurate and I don't see why it matters.